Measuring power consumption on IBM Blue Gene/P

  • Authors:
  • Michael Hennecke;Wolfgang Frings;Willi Homberg;Anke Zitz;Michael Knobloch;Hans Böttiger

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM Deutschland GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany 40474;Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany 52425;Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany 52425;Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany 52425;Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany 52425;IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH, Bööblingen, Germany 71032

  • Venue:
  • Computer Science - Research and Development
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Energy efficiency is a key design principle of the IBM Blue Gene series of supercomputers, and Blue Gene systems have consistently gained top GFlops/Watt rankings on the Green500 list. The Blue Gene hardware and management software provide built-in features to monitor power consumption at all levels of the machine's power distribution network. This paper presents the Blue Gene/P power measurement infrastructure and discusses the operational aspects of using this infrastructure on Petascale machines. We also describe the integration of Blue Gene power monitoring capabilities into system-level tools like LLview, and highlight some results of analyzing the production workload at Research Center Jülich (FZJ).